BY LORRAINE DUFFY MERKL “I coulda, woulda, shoulda been bolder.” That’s what I’ve been thinking about my career ever since I started watching a new show on Freeform called The Bold Type. My reflectiveness is not because I can no longer identify with the three fierce and gumption-filled, twenty-something main characters—Jane, Kat and Sutton—who are all low women on the totem pole at Scarlet magazine. It’s because I never had a boss like Melora Hardin’s “Jacqueline Carlyle,” the glossy’s editor-in-chief. In the series, created by Joanna Coles, former editor-in-chief of Cosmo and current Chief Content Officer for Hearst Magazines, Jacqueline “leads with passion not fear. As the strong and confident female head of a globally successful magazine, her greatness can be intimidating, but she always builds up her employees rather than bringing them down. She's an inspirational leader who does it all in five inch heels.” Where was she when I was coming up?
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